I want to highlight five directors who have taken the digital format and utilized it for their films, often optimizing the ability of the digital format and taking advantage of it’s pros to deliver a polished product. Each of the five directors listed below shot one or more films using digital cinema cameras and in the process, was breaking new technical ground in the film industry.
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The French New Wave: A Cinematic Revolution
The French new wave gave birth to such ideas as “la politique des auteur,” jump cuts and the unimportance of linear structure, if only to name a few. What the French new wave gave, most importantly, was a radical sense of change in cinema that would trickle throughout the world.
Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have On a Film Set
The Apple iPhone is undoubtedly one of the most powerful phones on the market today. Combined with its App Store, it has thousands of capabilities meaning there are plenty of apps to help you become more efficient on set.
Fight Club as a Film and Novel: A Copy of A Copy of A Copy
In a few sentences, I’m going to break the first rule. In actuality, I’m going to break the first two. But it’s hard not to. It’s even harder to believe that it has been 10 full years since the release of David Fincher’s Fight Club and 13 years since Chuck Palahniuk’s novel on which it was based.
Lightsabers, Replicants and Outer Space: A Look into Science Fiction Film
For each movie that could be pointed to as science fiction could also be examined as a drama, an adventure, a comedy, a noir, a horror film, and the list goes on. So, while most certainly nobody would deny that science fiction deserves its own catalog of films and its recognition in the history of film, it could be posited that instead science fiction is a conglomerate of all genres and that there are certain aspects that serve to convince a viewer to deem the film “sci-fi.”
At the ‘Ghosts Don’t Exist’ Movie Premiere for the DC Independent Film Festival
Yesterday was the premiere of Ghosts Don’t Exist, a feature film shot in Leesburg, VA and produced by 19th and Wilson, for which I was 2nd assistant camera (you can read part 1 of that story). The film was shown as the closing selection for the DC Independent Film Festival in the “Twilight Zone” session, sharing the time with two short films.
Top 5 Directors Who Should’ve Stayed Away from Digital Filmmaking
Back in the day, before the REDone and other digital cinema platforms, Hollywood used to make films on, well, film. There are, however, certain directors who have adopted either a completely digital workflow, or many aspects of one. These are the top 5 most guilty directors, and their films, of not just shooting digital, but utilizing it in the wrong ways and not playing to digital cinematography’s strengths.
RED ONE Menu Map (Build 21 + Build 30) *UPDATED*
The RED ONE is essentially a computer disguised as a camera and so it has quite a complex set of menus to navigate. Here to save the day is the menu map, a clever graphical configuration of the Red One’s menus
‘Below the Beltway’ Featured on ‘Ace of Cakes’
Below the Beltway, a DC-based independent film I worked on over this summer, is supposed to be featured in tonight’s 10:00 p.m. episode of Ace of Cakes.
RED ONE Camera Reports Download
When I was doing prep-work as 1st AC on “Red Herring,” shot on the RED ONE, I went ahead and created Red specific camera reports. The document was created out of a variety of different types of camera reports I had seen. The result was a template that enabled easy marking of traditional notes (lens, f-stop, etc.) as well as Red-specific meta-data.